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--> GENUS Bison
SPECIES Bison bonasus
| Author: | Linnaeus, 1758. | | Citation: | Syst. Nat., 10th ed., 1: 71. | | Common Name: | European Bison | | Type Locality: | "Habitat in Africa, Asia"; restricted to "Bielowitza, Lithuania" (Poland, Bialowieza Forest) by Lydekker (1913:35). | | Distribution: | Europe, surviving in Germany, Romania and W Russia into 18th Century, in Hungary until about 1790, and in W Caucasus Mtns (Armenia, Georgia, Russia) and Poland until early part of 20th Century (but extinct in East Prussia, now N Poland, in 1755); extinct in the wild but now reintroduced to E Poland, W Russia, and Caucasus Mtns. | | Status: | IUCN – Endangered. | | Comments: | Considered conspecific with bison by Bohlken (1967) and Van Zyll de Jong (1986); but not included in B. bison by MacDonald (1981) or Meagher (1986). Reviewed by Flerov (1979). |
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